Decades Ago at San Diego State
A look back at campus news on March 7, 1961.
With the university celebrating its birthday in March with , it is a perfect time for this new series presented by the 色情视频 Library's . "Decades Ago at San Diego State" will take a look back at news and topics of note from archived issues of The Daily Aztec, providing a glimpse of the university's past.
Surrounded by stories about All-Men鈥檚 Week (click on any link to view relevant newspaper clipping), a beard-growing contest and the near-demise of the paper itself, the announced It documented student protests of hearings held by the House Un-American Activities Committee in San Francisco in May 1960.
Listening to the 'Sounds of Protest'
In subsequent days, The Daily Aztec covered student response to the film, as well as to the put out by the University of California Berkeley student group SLATE in opposition to 鈥淥peration Abolition.鈥�
Strong student response
For more than a week, , and appeared about the film and the recording, . The Daily Aztec reports from 50 years ago provide a glimpse of the homefront in America during the Cold War, the birth of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement and San Diego State at the dawn of the 鈥渞adical 鈥�60s.鈥�
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To learn more about the 鈥淪ounds of Protest鈥� recording, click . Side A is a silent slideshow of images from the protest, while side B contains audio.
